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The video you linked was of a technology demonstrator. The engine was never put into production for the F-16. There has never been an option to buy F-16s with TVC. Also there have been many other technology demonstrators with the F-16 as the platform.

Sorry for the late reply. Haven't been able to follow the forum lately. Ummm...there are many factors when considering an upgrade for any of your weapons. This has already been discussed in many threads but ill try to give you an overview. Firstly TVC is more useful in close up combate i.e. dogfights. But the future trend that we are seeing is towards long range BVR fights. Hence the future possible advantages for TVC are very limited. Next we are a cash stripped country. We really need to weigh the benefits of any upgrade before acquiring it and as Iv said before the advantages of TVC for us do not out weigh it's cost. By the looks of TVC is going to become more or less useless very fast. Lastly the F-16 does not come with a TVC enabled engine option so we can't get that upgrade even if we wanted too.

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